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单词 to shut one's mouth
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to shut (also close) one's mouth
d. to hold one's mouth: to remain silent; to restrain one's speech (obsolete). to shut (also close) one's mouth: to refrain from speaking. to keep one's mouth shut: to remain silent, to refrain from inopportune or indiscreet speech. †to make up one's mouth: to finish speaking (obsolete). to stop a person's mouth: to keep a person from talking. Cf. to open one's mouth at open v. 3a, to run one's mouth at run v. Phrases 2z, to shoot off one's mouth, to shoot one's mouth off at shoot v. 23g.
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the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)]
to hold one's tonguec897
to keep one's tonguec897
to be (hold oneself) stilla1000
to say littleOE
to hold one's mouthc1175
to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175
to keep (one's) silence?c1225
to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275
stillc1330
peacec1395
mum1440
to say neither buff nor baff1481
to keep (also play) mum1532
to charm the tonguec1540
to have (also set, keep) a hatch before the door1546
hush1548
to play (at) mumbudgeta1564
not to say buff to a wolf's shadow1590
to keep a still tongue in one's head1729
to sing small1738
to sew up1785
let that fly stick in (or to) the wall1814
to say (also know) neither buff nor stye1824
to choke back1844
mumchance1854
to keep one's trap shut1899
to choke up1907
to belt up1949
to keep (or stay) shtum1958
shtum1958
the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > make complete [verb (transitive)] > complete, fill up, or make up
to make up one's mouthc1175
fulfila1225
through-fill?c1225
upspeed1338
supplya1398
araisea1440
to make outa1562
accomplish1577
complement1643
implement1843
the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] > stop speaking
to make up one's mouthc1175
to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175
blina1300
dumba1300
leavea1375
to put a sock in ita1529
hush1548
silence1551
stay1551
stow1567
stop1579
to save one's breath (also wind)1605
tace1697
stubble it!1699
shut your trap!1796
to keep a calm (or quiet) sough1808
stubble your whids!1830
to shut up1840
to dry up1853
pawl1867
subside1872
to pipe down1876
to shut (one's) head, face1876
shurrup1893
to shut off1896
clam1916
dry1934
shtum1958
to oyster up1973
the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > refrain from uttering [verb (transitive)] > silence or prevent from speaking
to stop a person's mouthc1175
stilla1225
to keep ina1420
stifle1496
to knit up1530
to muzzle (up) the mouth1531
choke1533
muzzle?1542
to tie a person's tongue1544
tongue-tiea1555
silence1592
untongue1598
to reduce (a person or thing) to silence1605
to bite in1608
gaga1616
to swear downa1616
to laugh down1616
stifle1621
to cry down1623
unworda1627
clamour1646
splint1648
to take down1656
snap1677
stick1708
shut1809
to shut up1814
to cough down1823
to scrape down1855
to howl down1872
extinguish1878
hold1901
shout1924
to pipe down1926
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eat [verb (intransitive)] > finish meal with a treat
to make up one's mouthc1175
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > lose the voice [verb (intransitive)] > not utter
to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175
to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275
peacec1395
muffa1500
to put a sock in ita1529
whista1547
to say not muff1652
to hold one's whisht1786
to shut (one's) pan1799
to shut up1840
to hold one's whistc1874
to shut (one's) head, face1876
to wrap up1943
c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 177 Healde we ure muð wið unnytte spece.
c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 2035 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 165 (MED) Beo stille..hold þinne mouthþ.
c1330 in T. Wright Polit. Songs Eng. (1839) 327 (MED) He may wid a litel silver stoppen his mouth.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 1275 (MED) Sche Comandeth me my mowth to close.
a1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 177 (MED) Be styl, clerk, & hold thi mowth.
c1535 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1901) I. 11 And how Christ stoppit the mowthis of the Saduceis.
1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie (new ed.) 3rd Serm. sig. Eviij (margin) A preacher offyce is to be a mouth stopper. But not to haue hys one mouthe stopped wyth a benefice or byshoprike.
1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London i. sig. B1v The poore Orator hauing made vp his mouth, Bankruptisme gaue him very good words.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxiv. 150 Stop your mouth dame, or with this paper shall I stople it. View more context for this quotation
1645 in A. L. Murray Lag Charters (1958) 57 The takeing of my lord of Quiensberrie hes stoped all yowr freends mowths.
1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 214 We stopt his Mouth with his Share of 200 000 Pieces of Eight.
1782 T. Grenville Let. 4 June in Duke of Buckingham Mem. Court & Cabinets George III (1853) I. 36 You will observe though..that this intended appointment has effectually stopped Franklin's mouth to me.
1784 C. Gadsden Writings (1966) 235 Continue here..until you have made up your mouth, (as the phrase is).
1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. x. 144 Enough... Go, and keep the mouth shut. When Magua speaks, it will be the time to answer.
1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. xiii. 241 I stopped his mouth by telling him that [etc.].
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. lxix. 113 He had told nobody anything, he had kept his mouth shut.
1895 R. Pocock Rules of Game 1 (Farmer) ‘Shut your mouth’, he said, ‘or I'll knife you!’
1897 J. Conrad Nigger of ‘Narcissus’ ii. 24 Keep your mouth shut when your elders speak, you impudent young heathen.
1933 A. G. Macdonell England, their England vi. 82 You can keep your mouth shut. Good man.
1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock i. i. 8 ‘Christ,’ the boy said, ‘won't anybody stop that buer's mouth?’
1989 B. Head Tales Tenderness & Power (1990) 17 I just bored myself to death and I assumed that I would bore others too so I shut my mouth pretty quick about what I had written.
1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life i. i. 17 Now you do what I tell you and keep your smart mouth shut!
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to shut (one's) mouth
b. (a) to shut (one's) mouth: chiefly in pregnant sense, to cease from speaking, to hold one's tongue. So in modern slang, to shut (one's) head, face ( see face n. Phrases 1k(a) for examples of the latter). (b) to shut (another's) mouth: to render unable to speak, reply, find fault, disclose secrets, etc.; occasionally to prevent (an animal) from devouring. (c) shut it (in imperative): close one's mouth, hold one's tongue.
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the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > refrain from uttering [verb (transitive)] > silence or prevent from speaking
to stop a person's mouthc1175
stilla1225
to keep ina1420
stifle1496
to knit up1530
to muzzle (up) the mouth1531
choke1533
muzzle?1542
to tie a person's tongue1544
tongue-tiea1555
silence1592
untongue1598
to reduce (a person or thing) to silence1605
to bite in1608
gaga1616
to swear downa1616
to laugh down1616
stifle1621
to cry down1623
unworda1627
clamour1646
splint1648
to take down1656
snap1677
stick1708
shut1809
to shut up1814
to cough down1823
to scrape down1855
to howl down1872
extinguish1878
hold1901
shout1924
to pipe down1926
the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] > stop speaking
to make up one's mouthc1175
to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175
blina1300
dumba1300
leavea1375
to put a sock in ita1529
hush1548
silence1551
stay1551
stow1567
stop1579
to save one's breath (also wind)1605
tace1697
stubble it!1699
shut your trap!1796
to keep a calm (or quiet) sough1808
stubble your whids!1830
to shut up1840
to dry up1853
pawl1867
subside1872
to pipe down1876
to shut (one's) head, face1876
shurrup1893
to shut off1896
clam1916
dry1934
shtum1958
to oyster up1973
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > lose the voice [verb (intransitive)] > not utter
to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175
to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275
peacec1395
muffa1500
to put a sock in ita1529
whista1547
to say not muff1652
to hold one's whisht1786
to shut (one's) pan1799
to shut up1840
to hold one's whistc1874
to shut (one's) head, face1876
to wrap up1943
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 179 Þe dyeuel þet him zet beuore þe ssame him uor to ssette þane mouþ.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. lii. C & ye kinges shal shut their mouthes before him.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Dan. vi. D My God hath sent his angel, which hath shut the lyons mouthes.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. x. xi. 183 If on his return, his father ventured to remonstrate..Gaspard shut his mouth at once, with..an impertinent answer.
1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer xviii. 151 Shut your heads and let Tom go on!
1894 Sporting Times 6 Oct. 1/4 Oh, shut it! Close your mouth until I tell you when.1908 G. Sanger 70 Years a Showman x. 33Shut it!’ said one of the showmen roughly; ‘save your breath for the next scene.’1945 G. Millar Maquis viii. 163 ‘Enough,’ cried Boulaya. ‘Shut it, Frisé... You know nothing.’
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